IBM Cognos Express

Spreadsheets are important tools for mid-market organisations, but they can’t keep up with today's need for instant financial performance data and analysis.

Business moves too fast, making spreadsheet-based views too labour-intensive, too slow, and too limited for advanced forecasting or deep analysis.

LAKE offers a solution: IBM Cognos® Express for SunSystems, a complete environment for financial performance management that is easy to deploy and can inform decision-making at all levels of the organisation.

Budgeting and Forecasting with SunSystems

IBM Cognos Express delivers real-time planning and business analysis.

IBM Cognos Express extends and transforms the familiar Excel front-end with a powerful in-memory analytics engine. It is perfectly suited for multi-dimensional analysis and strategic planning tasks, enabling a new level of insight and action, as well as speed.

• Transform Excel to quickly deliver multi-dimensional business analysis and planning



• Build and test business scenarios with powerful "what-if" modelling



• Update plans immediately using write-back capabilities



• Take advantage of existing Excel skills and investments while overcoming the risks and limitations of spreadsheet-only processes



• Eliminate data silos and inconsistencies throughout the organisation with centrally managed data, business hierarchies, rules and calculations



• Deliver over the Web for effortless analytics and collaboration with managers around the organisation



• Use with other IBM Cognos Express modules for a single, integrated BI and planning solution purpose-built for midsize organisations



• Fully integrated with SunSystems 4 and 5

Solution Overview

IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of mid-size organisations. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that mid-size organisations need at a price they can afford. Everything is included in a single extendable solution that is easy to install, easy to use and easy to buy.

IBM Cognos Express provides mid-size organisations with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? and What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs and identify new opportunities.

For organisations that are beginning to embark or expand on a BI and planning strategy, IBM Cognos Express includes everything needed to get started right away. It offers powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities for both novices and advanced users to encourage broad adoption throughout an organisation.